Dragon Clan: Reboot Life

Chapter 239

"died?"

Yuan Zhisheng looked up.

"Yes!" Crow said guiltily. The boss had repeatedly told him to take good care of the monkey-faced man, but he never expected that something would happen in the end.

"How did he die? Have you found out?" Yuan Zhisheng's expression remained unchanged, as if he had expected it.

He didn't look at the crow, but looked sideways at the torrential Tokyo outside the window, his calm expression made people feel creepy.

"Suicide, he has a denture with poison in it!" Crow said with an ugly face.

"Didn't check beforehand?"

"I checked it myself, but..." The crow hesitated and didn't continue, and if he continued, it would inevitably give the impression that the boss was making excuses.

In fact, in order to prevent this kind of suicide, they usually check the whole body of the person under surveillance in advance. He personally greeted the monkey-faced man, but at that time he did not find out that this guy had a denture with poison hidden in it, but now the facts and results Right in front of his eyes, the crow doesn't feel that he has the meaning of sophistry, and the result will always speak louder than words.

"I see, you go down." Yuan Zhisheng said calmly, "Have someone dispose of the corpse, and the rest of the helpers will be released after they are checked out. After all, they are still young people, and everything follows the family rules."

"Yes!" Crow bowed deeply, thinking that although those little kids are underage, they are wild enough to play. They have already broken through the lower limit set by the family, and even dragged people behind the car to death. .

This kind of young man might as well just die, the boss is really kind, he actually only followed the family rules, counting those guys as lucky, he just cut off a few fingers, broke the tendons of the hands and hamstrings, and turned into a waste in the next life It's inevitable, but at least he's still alive, isn't he?

The Bajia of Snake Qi is the main family of the underworld, and they have a high tolerance for the people below. They are the underworld. You can't expect the underworld to abide by the law and have positive energy every day. The family can only try to maintain the lower limit, but the actions of these little kids The family can't tolerate it anymore.

Crow turned and left.

"Who in the family works in the Metropolitan Police Department?" Yuan Zhisheng asked behind him.

"The highest position seems to be Longma Qiner from Longma's family, who is currently the chief of police." Crow quickly recalled.

The Ryoma family is involved in the arms industry. The head of the family, Genichiro Ryoma, was recruited by the Japanese Self-Defense Forces through a special process and became a "first-class empty sergeant" in the Self-Defense Forces reserve. This rank is equivalent to a colonel in other countries, and the rest are more or less in The Metropolitan Police Department or the military department hold positions, and the highest position in the Metropolitan Police Department is Long Maqin Er.

This is also the layout of Tachibana Masamune for many years. The Snake Eight Family has extended its tentacles to every corner of the country, and can use all power when necessary.

"When letting the young people go out, let Long Maqin Er come to lead them in advance." Yuan Zhisheng said lightly.

The crow was stunned for a moment, thinking that he really didn't know how to evaluate the boss for a while.

Say it hard, just pour cement according to the crow's idea, save national resources, say it's not hard, first cut off the limbs, and then send it to the Metropolitan Police Department, with the excellent resumes of these guys...

Tsk, the crow smashed its mouth, nodded and walked out.

After the crow left, Yuan Zhisheng continued to look through the family's internal information.

As the secretary, Sakura has been standing by his side, tall and slender, with attractive curves.

The room with only the two of them was eerily quiet, only the sound of pages turning.

Yuan Zhisheng glanced at the information in front of him from the family priest one by one. He was not interested in the past of these families, but after learning something, he suddenly wanted to know more about the past of this family.

"Sakura, I envy Uesugi Koshi." Yuan Zhisheng said suddenly.

Sakura's voice was as clear and concise as ever: "Why?"

"I am very envious that he has lived in France since he was a child. He is a real Frenchman. What he cherishes is life in France, not the days after returning to Japan, so he can easily withdraw and leave before leaving. He didn’t care what would happen to the Saki Hachi Family, nor did he care what would happen to Japan, because this is not his hometown, and there are no people he cherishes.”

Yuan Zhisheng closed the document and gently stroked the handle of the spider-cut knife placed aside.

"I can't be as free and easy as him, so after all these years, I still haven't been able to escape from Japan. Instead, I sat higher and higher. I clearly thought in my heart that I must leave my family and leave Japan, but this and that kind of fetters always hold me back. It's like a big net has bound me tightly here."

Speaking of this, he thought of the fierce argument with Caesar under the deep sea, and couldn't help but take a deep breath. Those words seemed to be vivid in his memory, echoing clearly in his mind.

What Caesar said may be true, but what he said at the time is also true. The underworld in Japan has long taken root in the depths of the country, and the Snake Bajia are the helmsman who maintains the balance of the underworld world, keeping all struggles safe. within control limits.

The evil of human nature is unimaginable, even a minor child can commit heinous and cruel murders once swallowed by the darkness in his heart.

And the Sheqi Bajia is equivalent to the sword of Damocles hanging above their heads. These years, the family has collected protection fees to maintain the balance of all parties. I dare not say how good it is. At least many people live like individuals. As for complete despair, he lost even the qualification to live on his last breath.

They are indeed not good people, but at least they take money to do things. If they don't do some things, do they count on the government?

Caesar under the deep sea said that without them to maintain a balanced society, the society may enter temporary chaos, but the government will soon intervene, so they have never been a savior.

Yuan Zhisheng only agreed with the last sentence.

Reality and ideals are always full of discrepancies, and those who cannot be counted on are not worth saving. In the eyes of the government, those low-level people who are not seen in the light are not worth saving. The only person in this world who has not given up on them is the family.

Sakura, who was standing aside, understood what the boss was talking about.

In the eyes of Sakura, Crow and others, Yuan Zhisheng is actually a gentle person. This kind of gentleness may be indecisive in the eyes of others, but the three who stand on the same level as Yuan Zhisheng firmly believe that it is gentleness.

It is this tenderness that has kept him shouting to leave Japan and leave his family, so far he has not been able to escape this vortex, but has been deeply involved in it.

He is a self-restraining and paranoid guy. He never liked the status of "emperor", but he has always assumed the corresponding responsibilities, so he is always tired and looking longingly at the unreachable distance.

In the quagmire of his family, he stood at the forefront with his sword firmly in hand, standing still and no one dared to strike him, but he had no way to retreat.

Sakura sometimes thinks, will the young master really escape to France?
France is the back road he left for himself. Everyone should have a back road so that they don't end up on the streets with nowhere to go.

He left a way for himself, but the world didn't give him the chance to walk this way.

Sakura doesn't know how to comfort the boss, but fortunately Yuan Zhisheng doesn't need her comfort, he has long been used to carrying a lot of things alone.

She could only silently accompany him by his side until the day when she had to leave.

She is not good at words, and can only express her emotions with companionship.

Yuan Zhisheng didn't notice Sakura's distraction, he quietly looked out the window.

According to Tachibana Masamune, he already knew where his blood came from. No wonder the man said that the blood of the Minamoto family had been cut off as early as the Meiji Restoration. No wonder the man said that he was the last Shangsanjia...

Should he call such a man his father?
Yuan Zhisheng recalled what he saw and heard at the ramen stand on that rainy night, and laughed at himself, he really couldn't say it out, he didn't even want to see that man again.

After seeing the real side of that man, the image of "father" was completely disillusioned on his side.

"Sakura, did I tell you about my childhood?" He turned to look at Sakura.

"No, if the parents have the desire to talk, I'd be happy to listen." Sakura bowed slightly.

"It's nice to have this secretary." Yuan Zhisheng smiled silently, but his eyes became more and more blurred, "As long as I can remember, my brother and I lived in the small town of Shikatori. We are the adopted son of a family. The adoptive father is an ordinary mountain man. We never met our biological parents..."

"In school, people often bully us, saying that we are children who were abandoned by our parents. Every time at this time, I will rush up and beat up these unrestrained people."

"Fortunately, my father, whom I have never met, gave me a good physique and pedigree. No one in my age can beat me, even if I am a grade higher. If I want to avoid being bullied in Japanese schools You must show a more vicious appearance than bad, so that no one will dare to bully our brothers."

Yuan Zhisheng paused at this point.

He didn't say the next words, but just thought silently in his heart.

Yuan Zhisheng, who was more vicious than bad, would secretly expect his father to be a hero.

This is the expectation of every child, especially those orphans who have never met their father. They always imagine that a father who is like a hero will descend from the sky. Said son, let’s go home, you old man, I have already laid a country for you waiting for you to inherit, I put you outside these years because I was afraid that someone would harm you, everything is stable now, your mother made a table at home The dish will clean up the dust for you, today we are not drunk and will not return, and by the way, I will take you to meet your future subordinates...

So at that time, Yuan Zhisheng once thought that Tachibana Masamune was his father, otherwise why would he go to the mountains to see him all the time as a city guy?

Sakura found that Yuan Zhisheng's eyes were a little hazy, as if he was lost in a certain past event.

What Yuan Zhisheng looked at was the dim city lights in the rainstorm.

In a trance, he seemed to have returned to the past.

The mountaintop where he had tentatively asked Tachibana Masamune if he had children.

In front of the bonfire, the maple leaves were falling and the starry sky was spinning slowly above his head. The boy mustered up his courage and asked Mr. Masamune if he had any children.
But Mr. Masamune said with a smile that it is really difficult for me to find a woman to give birth to a child. I intend to adopt a child. If you go to Tokyo, would you and the young girl be willing?

The boy didn't answer, and lowered his head in frustration. Compared with his alcoholic adoptive father, Tachibana Masamune was naturally heroic, but Yuan Zhisheng still wanted to wait for his biological father.

After all, no matter how good others are, how can they compare with your own?Even if the man never came to visit them.

"At that time, my father often went to the mountains. I had a good impression of this only man who showed patience to me at first. I thought he was my father at one time, but after I learned that my father was a gangster, I was full of justice. I immediately repelled him, never talked to him again, and always turned my head away forcefully when we met."

As if thinking of the stubborn young man who claimed to be a friend of justice back then, Yuan Zhisheng grinned, and Sakura also smiled. It sounds like the head of the family at that time was already a paranoid child.

"Dad doesn't mind, he still visits my alcoholic adoptive father on weekends, and sometimes brings me some small gifts, but I just throw the gifts into the trash when I go out."

"One time my father came from outside the mountain with candles and cakes. At the dinner party, he suddenly took out the cake and lit it with candles. He brought it to me and said happy birthday to me. Before that, I didn't celebrate my birthday because I never knew that I When is your birthday, and you haven’t eaten your own birthday cake.”

"Then my adoptive father said that my father was going to adopt me to Tokyo. Today is our new starting point."

Yuan Zhisheng fell silent suddenly.

Sakura asked, "And you agreed?"

"...No, I didn't agree, I was very against gangsters at that time, so I said coldly, what are you going to do in Tokyo, do you want to be a gangster who is afraid all the time?" Yuan Zhisheng said quietly, "Then dad said I'm sorry, He is actually the one who fostered our brothers in the mountains all these years, but he is not our father. Our father was a big figure in the Japanese underworld, but unfortunately he is no longer alive. We have inherited noble blood, and we were born to be the head of the family throne."

Sakura listened quietly.

"At that time, I was unwilling to accept this heavy identity from the bottom of my heart, let alone the reality that my father was no longer alive, so I stretched out the spikes all over my body like an angry hedgehog, and I roared that we were important in your hands. Is it right? With us you can climb high in the gang, right? But..."

"but?"

"But my father said that I didn't want to take you to Tokyo this time, but to take you abroad. He said that he had been hesitant to bring us into the vortex of the underworld all these years, but later he decided to take us there After living a mediocre but free life abroad, now think about it, if we agreed then, wouldn’t we be in France by now?”

Yuan Zhisheng murmured.

Life is always faced with countless choices and countless forks in the road, and each fork in the road leads to a different world.

Many years ago, the big boy who stood at a fork in the road gave up the road of fleeing to a foreign country because of his stubbornness. Perhaps it was destined that he would never escape again.

"Dad never came into the mountains after that. I moved out of my adoptive father's house and slept on mats in the school gymnasium with only a marching blanket to cover me.

"No one in the school wants to approach me, because my father is the emperor of the underworld, and I am unknown, so even if I was the well-deserved number one in the school at the graduation ceremony, no one applauded me. I stubbornly raised my head at the graduation ceremony Straighten your back, stare at everyone off the field, and tell them that gangster kids can beat their kids, not with violence, but with grades."

Sakura asked softly, "And then."

Because Yuan Zhisheng stopped again, his eyes blank.

As the best listener, Sakura expressed her curiosity about the following at the right time.

"Then Dad appeared again, this time not alone, but with a group of subordinates. All the subordinates lined the road to greet me. In front of everyone in the school, they bowed neatly, as if they were really welcoming me. An underworld prince."

"You are indeed the prince of the underworld. You were born to be the head of the Sheqi Ba Family." Ying said calmly.

"Hehe." Yuan Zhisheng laughed at himself, "After leaving school, my father and I walked side by side on the path next to the terraced fields again after many days, and I suddenly realized that I don't reject him anymore, maybe because I left my adoptive father's house to live alone These days made me think a lot and grow up a lot, this time he didn't want to adopt me, but invited me to do something together, and I agreed."

"You agreed this time?" Sakura asked a little puzzled, "What prompted you to agree, because you thought a lot after the first rejection?"

Yuan Zhisheng said silently: "I can't tell, maybe it's because I'm tired of the life in the mountains, or because of the words I said when I rejected my father for the first time, I questioned him and made malicious guesses. The guilt generated, or... I gave up, I no longer had expectations for my biological father, and I gave up the dream I had when I was young. In short, I agreed to his invitation and came to Tokyo. Ten years later, we all Standing at the pinnacle of the Japanese underworld."

Sakura was also silent for a while, she was keenly aware of something.

Yuan Zhisheng's words are full of unspeakable nostalgia, which is the child's longing for his father's love. After giving up his expectations for his biological father, he transferred all the beautiful reverie of his father to Mr. Masamune, so these years the eldest son In private, Tachibana Masamune always uses the title "Daddy".

But now...

Sakura whispered: "You used to trust Mr. Masamune so much, why are you doubting him now?"

Yes, in Sakura's eyes, Minamoto has unabashedly expressed his doubts about Tachibana Masamune, and his recent actions are testing Tachibana Masamune.

Now he remembers the past with Mr. Masamune, as if saying goodbye to the past and strengthening his determination.

Minamoto didn't answer Sakura immediately.

He sat there quietly, surrounded by the maple leaves that year seemed to be falling.

He still remembers the vicious words he said to his father at the birthday party. In fact, he regretted the words at the time. It was just his most vicious conjecture under extreme anger, and he did not hesitate to look at Masamune Tachibana with the worst side. His thoughts, but after he calmed down afterwards, he felt that he was wrong. For him, Tachibana Masamune has always been someone who can play the role of father, and he shouldn't use such vicious ideas.

but……

Many years later, Yuan Zhisheng couldn't help thinking, what if these conjectures are true?
Yuan Zhisheng raised his head slightly, the lights in the room were a bit dazzling, he squinted at the bright yellow light on the ceiling.

He didn't want to think about it, but many facts forced him to think about it.

For example, Tachibana Masamune's completely different rhetoric before and after the Lenin.

In the conversation beside Erika, the old man confessed his past, including the Lenin. In the old man's narration, the Lenin was driven by him, but he had not waited until it reached the coast of Japan, and the ship hidden in it The egg fell into the deep sea with a boatload of people, and he could only escape in a small boat with his brothers and Erika.

But in the conversation shortly after returning from the deep sea, the old man pushed all this to the ghosts. This inconsistent caliber made him suspicious.

In addition...

He personally went to the deep sea to see it. This is by no means a coincidence, but someone deliberately used the eggs of the Lenin to pay homage to the White King in Gaotianyuan!

He absolutely doesn't agree with the statement about Dad's coincidence!

When the first ray of doubts about his father arose in his heart, doubts emerged one after another uncontrollably.

Under the guidance of Caesar, he let the crow and others capture the "Chibei" in Qianzuru Town, and found the Moloto cocktail from the leader monkey-faced man, which proved that Chibei had an affair with the fierce ghosts.

What shocked him even more was that Sakura reported afterwards that there was a former safe house in Chizuru Town.

If Caesar and the others wanted to contact the headquarters after they landed, they would most likely go to the safe house in Chizuru-cho, but just after Caesar and the others arrived in Japan, Chibei, who had just purchased a large number of guns and held a Moloto cocktail, went berserk The regiment happened to be entrenched in Chizuru Town.

He really couldn't stop thinking this way. Someone had set up an ambush against Caesar and the others early in the morning, and they had been carefully planning it since before they arrived in Japan.

Who can know their itinerary so well, and the safe house of the headquarters in Japan?
Ghosts?
Or the family?

Ten years have passed, and he is no longer the big boy who stubbornly refused to say a word to him simply because the other party was a gangster. Know people's hearts across the belly.

Just like if Dad didn't tell, he would never know that he used to be a member of the KGB with a name called Bondarev.

No, even the name may not be real.

Yuan Zhisheng's cold face pulled out a sarcastic arc, as if he was laughing at himself.

He is a very sensitive person, especially sensitive to the malice of this world, he will not trust anyone easily, and the number of people who have trusted him can be counted on two hands.

Each of these people is as precious to him as a finger, and Tachibana Masamune should be the index finger of the right hand, the most flexible, reliable and trustworthy finger.

But now he had to start doubting this most trusted finger.

Ashamed to say, he was a little afraid to face such a bad truth, didn't know how to deal with it, and even wanted to trust Masamune Tachibana, so instead of asking directly, he kept forcing him to reveal the truth from the side.

He met with Inuyamaga in private, asked him his opinion on the patriarch of the previous generation, and did not reserve his skeptical attitude towards him in his words, and then let these words flow into Tachibana Masamune's ears.

He vaguely spread the news that they were about to get a key breakthrough from the red monkey-masked man.

Everything is forcing Tachibana Masamune, if Tachibana Masamune really harbors dissent, then he should know that the wolf cubs he has raised for ten years and have not matured are starting to bite him back.

But these are not enough, he still lacks a decisive step,
The phone on the table vibrated suddenly.

Yuan Zhisheng, who was in deep thought, raised his head and looked at the fluorescently lit phone screen, on which was the latest text message.

When the contents of the text message came into view, Yuan Zhisheng's pupils suddenly dilated.

He took a deep breath to calm his mind, and said to Sakura: "Have Yasha and Crow bring people together, and say...we have found the secret research room of the ghost kings!"

Sakura's complexion suddenly changed, "Obey!" She strode out of the room.

Yuan Zhisheng also got up and came to the floor-to-ceiling windows. Looking from here, the city is like a forest. Countless billboards and neon lights shine together in the wind and rain, making people get lost in the city without knowing it.

Caesar sent him a big gift.

If... If Dad, no, Tachibana Masamune really lied to him, what should he do?
The exhaustion from the depths of his soul welled up in his heart, and after many years, he seemed to be a helpless young man again.

The floor-to-ceiling windows reflected his silhouette, as well as those eyes that were as clear as a sword.

"I am... the head of the Sheqi Ba Family."

Yuan Zhisheng took a deep breath and said this to himself in the mirror.

He is the patriarch of the Sheqi Ba Family, and he must fulfill the duties of the patriarch, just like he has been fulfilling the duty of the "emperor" in the past years, fighting at the forefront of the family.

Cleaning up the rebellion is the duty of the parents.

He stood quietly, his eyes seemed to penetrate everything, to the infinitely distant distance.

He knew that he could never escape to that beach again.

(End of this chapter)